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Quentin Tarantino

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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Demand Myself Right Thinking Truth Writing
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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Color Life Reality Terrible Violence Work
That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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Accomplishment Artist Easy Myself Violence Work
L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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Big Different Live Planet Yourself
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Reveal Secret Truth Voice Writing Yourself
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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Break Movie Myself People Rule Writing
I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
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End Excitement Myself Play Song Way
Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
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Character Criticism Ignorance Job Myself Opinion Social Talk Writing
I steal from every movie ever made.
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Day Movie Myself Steal Theft
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Myself Story Strength Talk Thinking
I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.
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Bad Believe Level Movie Music Myself Rough
I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.
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Basic Goodness Home Professional Sound Thinking Yourself
Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
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Justice People Police Protest Shoot
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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Actor Collaboration Magic Myself
Violence is fun, man.
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Fun Man Violence

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